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Journalists’ body wants comprehensive insurance package for mediapersons from government
Pune: One more television scribe died of novel Coronavirus infections in Maharashtra on September 2, 2020 to increase the Covid-19 casualties within the media fraternity as journalists continue playing the role of corona warriors along with the practicing doctors, nurses, sanitation workers and police personnel in the pandemic.
Pune-based scribe Pandurang Raikar (42), who worked for TV9 news channel, succumbed to Covid-19 complications at a hospital in his hometown of Ahmednagar. Raikar was tested positive in the antigen test on August 30, and was taken to a private hospital. But the family alleged that the Ahmednagar hospital delayed his treatment. Raikar left behind his wife, two kids and a host of relatives.
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As casualties among media families grow across the country, Guwahati-based Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) on Thursday appealed to every scribe to be cautious and careful while reporting from the ground to safeguarding themselves with their families. The forum urged the Union government to announce a comprehensive insurance package for the media corona warriors.
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Earlier, another television journalist Neelanshu Shukla (30) died of Covid- complications on August 31. He was from Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) and was was associated with a private news channel AajTak. Maharashtra’s veteran journalist Ashok Churi, who edited Marathi weekly Palghar Times, died at a Palghar based hospital, and was tested positive for Covid-19. The printer-publisher of Asomiya Khabar (Rantu Das), who tested positive for the virus infection, also died at a Guwahati hospital. New Delhi based scribe Tarun Sisodia had killed himself undergoing treatment at AIIMS.
The list of journalists who contracted COVID-19 while performing their job and died is ever growing. A few who lost their battle against the virus are:
- Jai Deep (Photojournalist, Patiala)
- Madhusudan Reddy (Television reporter, Tirupati)
- M Parthasarathy, (Video journalist, Tirupati)
- Ramanathan (Television reporter, Chennai)
- Simanchal Panda, K Ch Ratnam and Priyadarshi Patnaik (Journalists, Orissa)
- E Velmurugan (News videographer, Chennai)
- Davinder Pal Singh (News presenter, Chandigarh)
- Manoj Kumar (Television scribe, Hyderabad)
- Pankaj Kulashrestha (Journalism Agra)
- Ronny Roy (Photojournalist, Kolkata)
“It’s time to be careful for everyone. Over one hundred Assam-based media persons have already turned positive for the virus infection,” said a statement issued by JFA president Rupam Barua and secretary Nava Thakuria. It added that shockingly the worrisome development was not reported by the concerned news papers, news channels and digital platforms properly even though a few infected media persons made personal revelations in the social media.
– globalbihari bureau
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